I know its not a popular opinion and it'll make some people upset but man, next season looks like a perfect year to start a rebuild. The Flames aren't good enough. They have good players on good contracts (who would be amazing support players on great teams), they need to cut costs, there are a few teams like Buffalo who will be desperate for help and would probably overpay for help, there likely won't be ticket revenue next year anyway, if they build a team properly it should be a contender by the time the new arena opens, they'd be selling hope, they can probably get more picks at this year's draft which is deep....
It just makes so much sense to start a rebuild.
I'm fully expecting the Flames to trade away their first for a guy like Kumpner or whatever then overpay an older average at best UFA who does nothing and the team to be in even worse shape a year from now.
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